Here’s a post worth recycling.
Give this word a whirl:
Poetaster.
Any guesses?
Potato taster?

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Try again.
Poet … taster?

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Uhmmm, no, not that either. No eating of poets, no matter how yummy their words.
It’s actually pronounced poh-it-as-ter,
negating the whole “taster” angle.
Poetaster actually refers to